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say it: GUHV-ur-nuhns
governance is a noun meaning "the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something". It is pronounced /ˈɡʌvɚnəns/ — GUHV-ur-nuhns. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
“he claims that the present administration is corrupt”
“the governance of an association is responsible to its members”
“he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment”
the act of governing; exercising authority
“regulations for the governing of state prisons”
“he had considerable experience of government”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for governance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.